Fall depicted through a cupcake! Brownie bottom with a vanilla cake top all topped off with a whipped cream frosting and a candy leaf.

Ingredients

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Brownie Mix

Vanilla cake mix

Candy Melts in fall colors (1 bag of each color)

Eggs

Oil

Water

Leaf candy mold

Whipped Cream Frosting

3 cups heavy cream

2 tablespoons (more or less to taste) pure vanilla extract

1/3 cup sugar

Directions

Gather your ingredients and pre-heat the oven to 350°F

Line a cupcake pan with cupcake liners. This recipe yields about 24.

Start by preparing your brownie mix following the directions on the box.

Fill the cupcake liners roughly a third full of the brownie batter.

Next, prepare the vanilla cake mix using the boxed directions. Add food coloring to achieve your desired color. For fall we chose orange. Spoon the cake mixture on top of the brownie mixture.

Next, we bake our cupcakes for 15-20 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean and the cakes are done. Let the cupcakes cool after baking. They should be completely cool with no residual heat.

Once completely cool, top with your favorite frosting. In this recipe whipped cream frosting was used to keep it light. To create the frosting, combine the cream, sugar and extract in a large bowl and whip until frosting is stiff. Let sit for a couple of minutes and fill a pastry bag. Use to frost cupcakes.

After painting your molds, you will have a variety of leaf looks! Place it into a freezer for at least 20 minutes to freeze the chocolate.

After frozen, remove your candy mold from the freezer. Once the mold warms back up a bit the candy will fall right out of the mold. You can gently rub the top of the mold with your finger if you want to speed up the process. Place the leaf on top of the cakes and frosting!

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